kmckiern
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Comment · 1 year ago
fun!
Comment · 1 year ago
> I can't see what is what "the economy" has given to us in return.
Reductions in extreme poverty, increases life expectancy, improved access to education and healthcare.
Comment · 1 year ago
Data is useful! But it seems like (I am not an economist) the incentive structures around these offices are failing. Maybe the benefits need to be more immediate / obvious / visceral.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interesting - I've heard this anecdotally. Curious if you know of any resources that look at this in more detail?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20240917.pdf
Check out the "CoT Deception Monitoring" section. In 0.38% of cases, o1's CoT shows that it knows it's providing incorrect information.
Going beyond hallucinations, models can actually be intentionally deceptive.
Comment · 2 years ago
While GDP is growing, there has been a long-term decline in wages as % of GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa
The median worker's day-to-day perceived quality of life may be more aligned with this downward trend.
I'm not an economist, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Comment · 2 years ago
First of all - very cool that they were able to image this and work out the mechanical mechanism in such detail.
Second - the rupture event looks so violent but iiuc it’s actually highly controlled: - the rupture site is thinned early in the ovulation process - the expansion step pulls in fluid to the ovary (builds internal pressure) - the contraction phase restricts the cell volume (which also builds internal pressure) - the oocyte is launched out of the cell at a relatively high speed